No one wishes to ever inscribe that on the likable Porzingis’s career tombstone. It’s just that with the Knicks’ luck, and the early medical data, the cautionary caption bubble floating above the franchise player’s head is not so easily burst. Sans Porzingis, who had surgery on Tuesday and is projected to be out for up…

When the Mavericks remodeled their locker room after last season, walls were erected to take the weight room and exercise equipment completely out of view in a quest for greater privacy for the players. Members of the news media, who for years could request permission to enter a theoretically off-limits zone and huddle around Cuban…